bits February 08, 2024 at 06:05PM

Telescopes show the Milky Way’s black hole is ready for a kick

“The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football, according to a new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA).”